Portal:Water/(In)Famous Foes


 * [[Image:Dick Cheney.jpg|left|100px|alt=Dick Cheney|Dick Cheney]]Dick Cheney:  Mr. Cheney is infamous for many things, including his role in the Halliburton Loophole to exempt the chemicals used in drilling for methane from the disclosure rules and limitations in federal law.  Cheney deserves a permanent place in the hall of infamous foes.


 * [[Image:T_boone_pickens.jpg|right|150px|alt=T Boone Pickens|T Boone Pickens]]T. Boone Pickens: Author of the PickensPlan, a program launched in July 2008 by Texas tycoon T. Boone Pickens promoting drill-baby-drill policies in the name of national security. Originally a combination of the promotion of methane drilling, and wind energy, the plan has transformed into the promotion of methane gas drilling exclusively. Pickens' full plan can be seen here. Pickens was very influential in the introduction of the 2011 NAT GAS Act, as covered by CMD's Steve Horn. Pickens is also a big proponent of water privitization, and is the owner of Mesa Water. He is also the owner of the energy hedge fund BP Capital. He is the author of two autobiographies, his most recent one titled, "The First Billion is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future"


 * [[Image:Aubrey McClendon.jpg|left|150px|alt=Aubrey McClendon|Aubrey McClendon]]Aubrey McClendon is the CEO of Chesapeake Energy. He is also in the chair of the board of directors of the front group American Clean Skies Foundation. The channel produces what is notoriously known as Branded News. He is also a Managing Partner and Founder of Deep Fork Capital. He has been a Director of Chesapeake Energy Corp. since 1989. At the 2011 winter meeting for the Independent Oil and Gas Association, McClendon stated that Chesapeake planned on investing some $40-50 billion in methane gas drilling in West Virginia in the next few decades. He also stated that Chesapeake had already spent some $600 million in capital investment since 2008 in the state. Short profiles about McClendon on Sourcewatch can be seen here and here.


 * [[Image:Katie_Klaber.jpg|right|100px|alt=Kathryn Klaber|Kathryn Klaber]] Kathryn Klaber: the new President and Executive Director Kathryn Klaber of the drilling industry-backed Marcellus Shale Coalition (and the former Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Economy League)., "President & Executive Director." Marcellus Shale Coalition. In an interview with the so-called "Clean Skies TV Network," a channel affiliated with the American Clean Skies Foundation (which is largely funded from profits from gas drilling), Klaber stated that toxins entering into peoples' oil wells was a myth (though debunked by investigative journalists and scientists), and also stated that the FRAC Act was unnecessary because other organizations like the Environmental Protection Agency already have regulations in place to serve as a watchdog, neglecting to mention that the chemicals used in methane drilling are not regulated by federal water protection rules, thanks to the Halliburton loophole, and the process is subject to woefully inadequate state inspection agencies.  The interview can be seen here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0-pOqZVHvc&feature=player_embedded